Characters
The main protagonist of the play. Their main objective was to bury the body of their brother, Polyneices.
Who is Antigone?
Eteocles and Polyneices fought about ____ which led to their demise.
What is the crown?
The playwright of Antigone
Who is Sophocles?
By burying their borther, the main protagonist is fighting ______.
What is the law?
The names of the two brothers who killed themselves in battle.
Who is Etecoles and Polyneices?
The main protagonist's sister. She believes she and her family must obey the law of the land.
Who is Ismene?
True or False: Ismene wants to bury Polyneices with Antigone
What is False?
The Greek city-state that serves as the setting.
What is Thebes?
In his beginning speech, Creon asserts his _______ over the elders of Thebes.
What is power?
What is the law that Creon puts in place?
If Polyneices is to be buried, the individual who buries him will be put to death.
The main antagonist of the play. The protagonist's uncle and new King of Thebes.
Who is Creon?
Polyneices cannot be buried because ______
What is he is seen as a traitor to Thebes?
True or False: Antigone is a Greek comedy.
False - Antigone is a Greek tragedy.
The dramatic irony (what the reader knows and the characters do not) at the end of scene 1 is _________.
What is Antigone was the one to bury Polyneices.
Why is it important for Ployneices to be buried? (Hint: think of the Underworld)
If he is not buried, he will be a lost soul and cannot travel to the Underworld.
The people of Thebes that comment on the central action of the play.
Who is the Greek Chorus, also, known as the Choragos?
The Sentry delivers the news that __________ to Creon.
Oedipus is the ________ of Antigone.
What is father?
According to the law, if Antigone is caught burying her brother, she will face ________.
What is death?
What was Polyneices and Eteocles' orginal agreement on who would be King?
They would alternate being king each year.
The king's messenger that delivered the news that Polyneices was buried
Who is the Sentry?
Creon believes __________ is responsible for burying Polyneices.
What is "stiff-necked anarchists" or enemies of Thebes?
Eteocles became king because _________
What is Oedipus was unfit to rule after his prophecy became a reality.
What is the main theme of Antigone? (Hint: Free will vs. ?)
What is free will vs. law and order?
What century did Sophocles write Antigone?
500 B.C.